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Laura Thomson

Laura Thomson
Senior Director of Engineering, Mozilla Corporation

Laura Thomson is a Senior Engineering Manager at Mozilla Corporation. She works with the Web Engineering team, which is responsible for the Firefox crash reporting system and other developer tools, and the Release Engineering team, which is responsible for shipping Firefox.

Laura is the co-author of “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and “MySQL Tutorial”. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences worldwide.

Sessions

9:00am–12:30pm Sunday, 07/20/2014
Elasticsearch: The Missing Tutorial
Cloud | Databases & Datastores
Portland 255
Tutorial Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Erik Rose (Mozilla), Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation)
Average rating: ****.
(4.36, 33 ratings)
Elasticsearch provides a powerful combination of clustered full-text search, synonyms, faceting, and geographic math, but there's a big gap between its documentation and real life. We'll tell hard-won war stories, work through hands-on examples, and show what happens behind the scenes, leaving you equipped to get the best use out of Elasticseach in your projects. Read more.